After another amazing festival this January, we’re officially OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 🎬✨ Got a short you want to see on the big screen? Send it our way via FilmFreeway for LSFF 2027. Early Bird deadline is 31st March.

That’s a wrap on LSFF 2026 🎬 This year, shorts popped up in community hubs + creative spaces across #London, carrying short-form cinema to new eyes + new ears. Thank you to all our venues, volunteers + sponsors for making #LSFF26 so special. Cinema remembers what we forget.

Our Industry Programme wrapped yesterday after 5 incredible days of panels, Q&As, screenings + showcases across the city. Across venues at @tiktok_uk, @ICALondon + @ErasedTapes we brought together filmmakers + creatives to help form conversations, connections + collaborations.

What a night 🎬✨ Our @LSFF offline meetup on Monday was a huge success ; packed with inspiring conversations, insightful questions for our incredible panel & speakers, and plenty of fun at the Polaroid photobooth 📸 Big thanks to everyone who joined us to explore how CapCut can help filmmakers ideate, create, and streamline their workflows. Massive thank you to our partners at LSFF and to all the brilliant creatives who showed up and made it special 💙 #CapCut #LSFF #CapCutxLSFF #Filmmakers #CreativeCommunity

LSFF on #35mm Here's a few snaps from our Opening Night at @CurzonCinemas Soho 📸 There's still plenty of panels, Q&A's, and of course, short films to see over the weekend! Grab your tickets and we'll see you in one of our many venues across #London ✨

We’re proud to sponsor @SydArts_ Film Club's @LSFF event Express Yourself 🎬 Join them tomorrow for bold new voices, great storytelling & local creativity, right here in #Sydenham. 🎟 Tickets: sydenhamarts.co.uk | Programme: shortfilms.org.uk #LSFF2026 #SE26

🎬 The LSFF Industry Programme starts today! Over the next 5 days, we're bringing together filmmakers, producers, programmers and creatives for talks, screenings, + opportunities to connect. Kicking off today at @tiktok_uk HQ, then continuing at the @ICALondon + @ErasedTapes

LSFF26 Opening Weekend is underway! ✨ Thank you for a wonderful opening night. It’s so lovely to begin sharing our 2026 programme with you, and see these shorts on the big screen. Over the next 9 days we have #film screenings, panels + industry event all over #London, join us?

🚨 IT’S LIVE 🚨 LSFF 2026 starts today 🎬 Ten days of bold short films, special programmes, talks & events across #London opening the UK film calendar in style. Grab tickets, dive in, and we’ll see you in the cinema 💥

RT @LDN_Culture: The @LSFF starts today🎞️ Showcasing 300 works from new voices, acclaimed directors, and underground discoveries drawn fro…

⏰ One week to go! The LSFF Industry Programme kicks off in 7 days - five packed days of panels, screenings, matchmaking + big conversations shaping filmmaking today. Join us from 26–30 Jan. 🎬 🎟️ Passes via link in bio

The @LSFF is kicking off this week. Excited to see so many BFI NETWORK shorts in this year's programme! Pen Mari For Better Poll Pri Tumtum Cameraman Purebred Deliverance Strands: Gothic, London/British Lives, Romantic Matinee & more bit.ly/4b0O0cO

⏰ 1 WEEK TO GO ⏰ LSFF26 lands across #London 23 Jan–1 Feb 🎬 10 days of screenings + events spotlighting bold new voices alongside acclaimed names. We'll be at @ICALondon @riocinema @RichMixLondon @CurzonCinemas @ActOne_Cinema @MetrolandC + new venues across the city!

London Short Film Festival (@LSFF), returns with a programme inviting young audiences to imagine worlds both vast and small, where empathy and curiosity shape what comes next. Suitable for children aged 7+ 25 Jan thegardencinema.co.uk/film/l…

Very happy to share that my new film, ‘THE GOLDEN SQUACCO HERON’, will have its London Premiere at @LSFF 2026! We’ll be screening twice: Thurs. 29th Jan. 18:20 at @CurzonSoho and Sat. 31st Jan 19:30 at @CinemaMuseum. Hope to see a few mutuals there! 🎟️ shortfilms.org.uk/films/the-…

📖 New essay alert: "Dreams Made Material: The Cinema of Soviet Infrastructure in Central Asia" by our PhD Kseniia Bespalova about the @LSFF programme 'Wonders and Disasters: Nature, Architecture, and Colonialism in Central Asia', to screen at @ICALondon on 27.01.26

⋆˚｡⭒ A CoreCore Mixtape ⭒˚｡⋆ Found footage for the algorithmic age 📼 A remix of TikToks, internet detritus & doomscroll logic — a cinema of anxiety, nostalgia & burnout. 24 Jan @ICALondon + Q&A. Curated by Immaterial Film Club + essay from @kieranpressreyn #CoreCore

🖤 Emo Tapes dives into early Y2K emo YouTube: DIY vids, teenage bedrooms, music & fashion. Screening + panel, symposium on emo superstars #MyChemicalRomance + emo history. 29 Jan @ICALondon Come cry, cringe & feel seen 🥀 #emo #Y2K #MCR

LSFF centres Deaf & disabled experience, not as access add-ons, but as a creative force. Programmes such as My Eye Is My Ear + A Raised Voice, Amplified interrogate modes of speaking and listening. + BSL/DS, relaxed, free & #PWYC screenings across #London

Head to @BFI Southbank on 25 Jan for Everybody’s Darling: Melodrama in 80s & 90s Punk Cinema, part of @LSFF Platforming women & queer artistes, investigating the legacy of Warhol’s ‘superstars’, John Waters’ trash cinema & the Cinema of Transgression. buff.ly/6kSRIai